"Your territory? A city belonging to a dragon... what does that mean?"
Barbara felt as though her brain had short-circuited. A century's worth of knowledge seemed insufficient.
Those words were all easy enough to understand individually, but put together, they left her confused.
"To put it simply.
I'm the Guardian Dragon here.
The lord is also one of my people, and the subjects love me more than they love their lord.
Naturally, that makes this my territory."
Xiluo explained.
Barbara remained astonished.
"Guardian Dragon... your territory... you controlled or bewitched a lord's mind?
If I remember correctly, this city should be Niro City. It wasn't exactly small to begin with, with a population of at least seventy or eighty thousand.
It seems to have developed even further now.
A city this prosperous couldn't possibly lack powerful individuals.
How did you manage to control or bewitch a lord's mind?"
The green dragon spoke with a bewildered expression.
In her old-fashioned understanding,
for evil Chromatic Dragons to take control of a city, they naturally had to hide behind the scenes and secretly enslave its lord with spells.
But what was Xiluo doing?
Guardian Dragon?
You've stepped into the public eye. How can you still control the lord?
Are all the city's clergy and spellcasters useless? Haven't they noticed anything wrong?
Besides.
You're in your true form right now. Is it really all right for us Chromatic Dragons to approach a city?
Xiluo could see the green dragon's confusion too.
He continued explaining.
"Please don't misunderstand, Lady Barbara. I haven't controlled or bewitched them.
All the subjects, including the lord, willingly support me."
"Willingly?"
The green dragon was dumbfounded. She stared at Xiluo with a look that said, Do you take me for an idiot? A little hatchling who's never left her nest?